Technology caused
overpopulation to become worse
Prehistoric humans were overpopulated, but not overcrowded or suffering from environmental destruction. When they
settled into cities, they began suffering from overcrowding and
environmental destruction, in addition to overpopulation.
Agriculture and other technology allowed our ancestors to produce
more food, tools, and material items, but the increase in food did not stop the
hunger, malnutrition, starvation, or the death of their children. The
reason was because the increase in food allowed more of their
children to survive, thereby increasing their population so that it
always remained at its maximum level.
To make their situation worse, as they improved their farming
technology, they could produce more food with less
land, so the amount of land that a city needed to produce
food
continuously decreased
through the centuries. This allowed the cities to become larger and
closer
together. That reduced the territory that they needed, which resulted
in them becoming even more overcrowded. It also resulted in so many
people using the rivers and lakes that they began ruining their
supplies of water and fish.
The genetically inferior creatures
suffer the most
Animals produce more babies
than they can support, and that guarantees that many of the babies are
going to die. However, most deaths are not random.
The reason is because there are
subtle differences in the genetic characteristics of every creature,
and that causes some animals to be better adapted to their
particular environment.
By producing an excessive number of babies, the animals are put into a
deadly competition for life, and that results in the genetically
inferior babies having a much greater chance of dying. That allows the
species to evolve to fit the environment and improve its genetic
characteristics.
Bad luck increases the suffering
of overpopulation
Every
species is at its maximum population level, so "bad luck" causes an
increase in deaths until the population drops to the level that can be
supported during that bad luck period.
For example,
when an area has a below-average amount of rain, there will be an
increase in the suffering and deaths of the animals and plants in that
area until
the population has dropped to the point at which there is enough food
and water for the remaining creatures.
However, the suffering is not random.
Instead, the creatures that
had the most trouble surviving before the
drought are most likely to suffer the most during
the drought.
There is evidence
that Krakatoa had
such a massive explosion in the year 536
that it caused the temperature of
the planet to drop,
resulting in a tremendous increase in the deaths
of animals, plants, and humans almost everywhere on the planet.
However, the deaths were not
random. Instead, the creatures that had the most trouble surviving before the eruption had the most
trouble surviving after the
eruption.
A person who doesn't understand these concepts is likely to
misinterpret the deaths that occur during "bad luck" events. For
example, when there is a drought, he will notice that the children of
the "poor" people suffer and die much more than the children of the
wealthy people, and that can
lead him to the false conclusion that the poor people are innocent
victims of droughts, and that the wealthy people should share
their wealth rather than be selfish.
However, making the wealthy people share their wealth cannot solve
the problem of poor people suffering from a shortage of food. If we
make the wealthy people share their food, we will allow a few of the
hungry poor people to survive, but soon their population will rise to
the
maximum possible for the handouts of food, and then the deaths of the
poor children will start to increase.
The only way to stop people from dying of hunger is to reduce the population to a level at
which there is enough food for all of the children. Hunger and
malnutrition is the result of overpopulation,
not droughts or selfish wealthy people.
For another example, before the potato blight affected Ireland, people
were
regularly dying and suffering from a shortage of food, and the children
of the poor people suffered the most. When the potato blight began to
decrease the supply of potatoes, the
poor people who depended upon potatoes suffered the most.
Feeling sorry for the people who suffered during the potato blight is
as useless and idiotic as feeling sorry for mice
that die during a drought. The only way to prevent ourselves from
suffering from droughts, potato blights, and other bad luck events is
to reduce the population to a
level at which we can easily
provide ourselves with enough food and
other resources when bad luck events occur.
However, the only way we can reduce our population to a sensible level
is if we change our attitudes
towards life and humans. We need leaders who realize that we must
restrict reproduction to keep our population
at a level at which we can maintain everybody's mental and physical
health.
We can interpret life in any
manner we please
To complicate the concept
of "bad luck", whether luck is good or bad depends upon how we want to
interpret the situation. For example, when there is a drought, a lot of
creatures will die, but that could be described as "good luck"
for the creatures that survive because it results in the inferior
members dying in larger numbers, thereby improving the gene pool of the
remaining creatures.
If the drought becomes permanent, such as when a mountain range starts
to
rise, thereby causing a forest to become a desert, then the deaths
causes the
creatures to evolve to fit the new environment.
We could say that the plagues that
killed enormous numbers of medieval Europeans were "good luck"
because each plague reduced the human population by a significant
amount. Every culture is ignoring genetics, so most people believe that
the deaths were random, but diseases cannot kill
living creatures at random. The creatures with certain genetic
characteristics are more likely to die.
For example, there has recently been evidence that some of the people
who survived the Black Death had a particular gene that gave their
immune system an excellent chance to resist the
pathogen.
Furthermore, if the plague was carried by fleas, then the people who
were the least attractive to fleas, or who had a lifestyle that reduced
their contact with fleas, would have had a higher
survival rate.
Overpopulation was one reason
for feudalism
From about 800 to 1400,
much of Europe was living with " feudalism".
Each feudal society was essentially a large tribe, except that unlike a
prehistoric tribe, in which the leader earned his position
continuously, the leaders of feudal societies were usually men who
became leaders as a result of inheritances, violence, intimidation,
secrecy, deception, or religious propaganda.
Historians give us an inaccurate
view of feudalism. They create the
impression that violent men got control of Europe and selfishly abused
the ordinary people, but many of their "abusive" policies were not the
result of selfishness. Rather, it was their reaction to overpopulation.
For example, the feudal leaders forbid the ordinary people from hunting
certain animals in the forest, and from fishing in the rivers.
Historians interpret those restrictions as proof that feudal leaders
were selfish and cruel, but those restrictions were created because the
leaders were
aware that there were not enough animals or
fish for everybody.
If the feudal leaders had allowed everybody to hunt as many animals and
fish as they pleased, then the
Europeans would have exterminated
all of their pigs, deer, and other
large animals, and they would have exterminated a lot of the fish in
their rivers and lakes.
Modern societies have more restrictions
than feudal societies
Historians criticize the
restrictions that feudal leaders imposed on the people, but modern
governments have more
restrictions on taking animals, fish, wood, sand, and other resources
from the forests and oceans.
For example, the image below shows a few of the restrictions
that American citizens
have on hunting and fishing. We have restrictions on where we are
allowed to hunt, which days of
the year we can hunt, and sometimes which
times of the
day we can hunt. We also have restrictions on the techniques and technology that we can use for
hunting and fishing; which animals
we
can hunt; the quantity of each
animal we can take; and the size
the animal must be.
We have more restrictions,
and more complex restrictions, than the
medieval peasants. However, those
restrictions are not
the
result of cruel or selfish government officials. Rather, they are
intended to prevent us from destroying the Earth's resources.
We also have a lot of restrictions on how we dispose of garbage, human
waste, dead animals, and certain chemicals. We also have restrictions
on where we can build a home, and how the
home is constructed. The people in the Middle Ages had more freedom than we do.
We still have the freedom to
deceive and abuse
During the past few
thousand years, our leaders have been increasing the
restrictions on
what we can do, but one of the areas that no society has yet put
restrictions on is the production of information.
We are as free to produce deceptive and false information as the people
were thousands of years ago.
There is no culture that cares about the quality or value of the
information
that we provide to other people. No culture even cares whether
schools are teaching lies about the
world wars, the Apollo
moon landing, or Anne Frank's diary, and no culture cares whether
journalists, charities, the FBI, the ADL, or government
officials are
lying to us.
Instead of putting restrictions on false information, every
society is allowing the exact opposite policy. Specifically, we allow
Jews to suppress and censor honest
information, and we allow them to harass the people who expose the
truth with accusations of anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and hate
speech.
Overpopulation was one reason
for migrations and wars
The villages of the Middle
Ages were so
overpopulated that a
significant
percentage of the
population was always hungry, and children were regularly dying. The
villages were also so overcrowded
that a lot of them
wanted more land for their farm, larger homes, and less crowded
neighborhoods. The unpleasant living
conditions caused a lot of
people to be irritable and miserable, just like the mice in the utopia
experiment.
Unlike the mice, the people in Europe could leave their village, and
many of them did so in order to take land away from their neighbors, or
to find a less crowded area to live. However, no matter where they went
to, there were already people living in the area, so they had to fight
for the land.
Some historians assume that the Vikings terrorized Europe because
they were cruel and violent people, but they terrorized
Europe because they were overpopulated. By 800 A.D. they had the
technology to create boats that could reliably take them long
distances, so some of them began
migrating to other areas in an attempt to find a less crowded area to
live. Unfortunately, every area that they encountered was
already overpopulated with other people, and so they had to fight for
the land, just as the
animals do.
This situation happens with animals on a routine basis. For example,
every group of wolves is overpopulated, and that occasionally causes
some of the members to migrate to another area, but every area they
migrate to will always be overpopulated with other wolves, and that
results in them fighting
incessantly for territory.
Overpopulation allowed humans to evolve
When primitive people get
into fights, the results are the
same as when animals get into fights. Specifically, the lower quality people tend to die
more often than the high-quality
people. Therefore, from the point of view of nature, the nearly
constant fights that were occurring between the different groups of
people were beneficial
to the human race. The fights caused a lot of people to
suffer, but they are one of the reasons that we have such good
eyesight, intelligence, coordination, and other advanced
characteristics.
An example is when an English army in 1418 surrounded
Rouen, a French city with 20,000 residents. The English army prevented
food from getting into the city, and
after
about 5 months, the city residents began eating the animals in their
city, and soon afterwards they evicted 12,000 of their poorest people,
who had to live
in a ditch between the English army and the wall around the city.
Apparently almost all of them died in that ditch, either from
lack of food, or by being killed by the English army. That attack
is depicted in the drawing
below.
Although the English
soldiers were cruel to the people in that city, from the point of view
of nature,
the English did the French a favor
by forcing them to get rid of their inferior citizens.
Incidentally, it would be nice if the AI software
could read the old written languages, such as in the
image above, and translate it into modern English.
Animals benefit when they fight each other for food and resources
because the fights favor the higher-quality animals, but the fights
that modern
humans get into
are no
longer beneficial. Two reasons are:
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We no longer
sacrifice the inferior
people during fights, or force them to join
the fight. There are so many people who believe that we should take
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When militaries
attack cities with large bombs, they kill people at random, rather than
kill the inferior people.
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Even without war, there would
have been deaths
Although the medieval wars
caused a lot of deaths and suffering, if the
people had not
had any wars, they would not have
reduced the deaths. Rather, they would have caused an increase in the
number of people who died
from other
causes, such as inadequate food supplies.
The medieval Europeans were producing more children than they could
support, which
meant that a certain percentage people had
to die every year.
If the adult men were so peaceful that they had not been
killing one another in wars, then there would have been more men who
were reproducing, which would have resulted in more children dying from
a shortage of food.
Conversely, if the medieval men had gotten into more wars, or
if their wars had been more violent,
then they would have increased the number of men who died from war,
which would have reduced the number of men who were reproducing, which
would have decreased the number of children dying from a shortage of
food.
Our population density affects our
culture
The plants and animals that
live in areas that provide them with lots of food have higher
population densities than
those that live in deserts or cold areas. The creatures that are in
high densities will encounter one another more often, which will affect
their evolution and culture.
Or ancestors who lived in areas where there was a lot of food, such as
France, were frequently encountering
their neighbors, which resulted in them frequently fighting over
territory. Their frequent fights helped to keep their population
under control. The fights also caused their culture to encourage fights
and weapons.
By comparison, the humans that were living in the sparsely populated
areas, such as deserts and tundra, rarely encountered their neighbors,
so they had
fewer fights over
territory. Their population level was kept down primarily by the lack
of food and water. Their culture would have had less emphasis on
fighting and
weapons.
The humans that were frequently fighting with their neighbors would
have evolved, both mentally and physically, to fit that environment.
Fighting and weapons would become
a part of their culture. By comparison, the humans that rarely fought
with their neighbors would appear to be more peaceful, and less
interested in weapons and fighting.
We don't know much
about the Gauls or Celts, so the this
section is intended only to inspire some research into
those people.
I suspect that the Gauls and Celts were one group of closely related
people, rather than two, genetically different groups. They seem to be
examples of humans that were in a densely populated environment. They
fought with their neighbor so often that fighting became a part of
their culture, rather than attempts to kill or conquer their neighbors.
Fighting was almost a recreational activity to them, and a method of
achieving status.
By comparison, the Romans fought in organized teams, and for the
purpose of conquering people. This made it very easy for
them to defeat the Celts.
We might be able to get a better understanding of the Celts by
analyzing
the people in the southern states of the USA, where many of their
descendants seem to be. I doubt if it is a coincidence that the
behavior
of many of the Southern people is similar to that described by the
Romans,
such as their country-western music, their extreme friendliness, and
their tendency to get into fights with one another over status issues.
Many of the men
in the southern states even have a physical resemblance to the Greek
statue of the Dying
Gaul.
Specifically, a very athletic body, broad shoulders, a preference for
hair brushed upward to make them look taller. The
Celtic people have faces and bodies that make attractive statues. A lot
of the southern men also have thick mustaches, just like the statue.
The Romans also described the Celtic women as
independent and
aggressive, and
many of the women in the southern states seem to fit that description,
also.
The natives of North America who were in densely populated areas, such
as the Iroquois and Apache, would have also evolved a more warlike
culture than the natives living in the deserts, such as the Hopi.
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Medieval life could have been wonderful
Our ancestors would have
had a very pleasant life if they had limited their population to a
level
that they could easily support. For example, if every medieval city had
maintained a population level that was only 20% of what it actually
was, every city
would have had plenty of land, wood, water, food, and other resources
for
everybody. All of the children would have been well fed, and nobody
would have experienced hunger. People would have continued to die from
accidents, disease, and other problems, but not from
war or a lack of food.
That lower population level would have allowed them to have a
buffer of
wild land between their cities, which would provide them with a source
of food when their food
production was reduced by bad luck events.
Furthermore, and even more important, if they had reduced their
population by restricting reproduction to the higher-quality people,
rather than with a stupid
policy, such as the One Child policy of
China, then each generation would have been in better mental and
physical health, thereby continuously reducing problems with crime,
trash, retardation, stupidity, gambling, alcohol, pedophilia,
organized religions, and prostitution.
Fighting is no longer sensible
The animals and plants
maintain their population level and genetic health through a deadly
battle for life. Until the development of birth control methods, humans
were also keeping their population level under control through a battle
for life. However, fighting one another is a cruel and inefficient method of dealing with
overpopulation and genetic disorders.
We now have the knowledge to control the human population and evolution
in a sensible manner, but how many humans have enough self-control to
discuss
the issue, compromise on policies, and implement those policies? If we
cannot find enough of those humans, our population will continue to
rise, and the human gene pool will continue to degrade, and we will
continue to suffer from overpopulation and overcrowding, just like
the mice in the utopia experiment.
Extreme overpopulation degrades
our diet
All animals are
overpopulated, but they rarely become so overpopulated that
they deplete their food source and have to evolve to eat foods that are
unnatural
to them. The exception are humans. Our ancestors became so
overpopulated several thousand years ago that they had to change their
diets and eat the food of other animals. For example, the population of
Western Asia became so high that there were not enough pigs and deer
for the people, so they started eating insects, rice, rats, tarantulas,
cats, and dogs.
Likewise, the population in medieval Europe became so high that most
people had to
depend on barley, oats, and rye. The people in
Scandinavia had to
depend upon the ocean for food. When potatoes were introduced to
Europe, a lot of the poor people became dependent on potatoes.
If our ancestors had kept their population under control, they would
have had plenty of meat, fruit, and vegetables. Other foods, such as
rice, wheat, and oats would have been for variety,
rather than a primary food. It
is even possible that none of our ancestors would have been
interested in drinking animal milk.
Some people today are promoting the concept that we switch from eating
cows, pigs, chickens to eating insects, but a more
sensible solution is to reduce the human
population.
Extreme overpopulation degrades our culture
Humans are so overpopulated
that our products, social activities, recreational activities,
houses, and other aspects of our culture have degraded. An example
mentioned in the dystopia document is that many cultures have reduced
the volume
of their voice to an abnormally low level. For three more examples:
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Some Californian
cities have too many people for the amount of water in their area, so
the California
government requires us to
use low-flow toilets that don't function as
well as normal toilets, and which cause trouble for the sewage
treatment facilities.
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Some of the Asians
are living in homes that are so small and overcrowded that there are
prisoners in the USA with more space.
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The Dutch had to
build dikes and windmills to convert some of the ocean into dry land.
Today about 26%
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If every society had controlled their population, then nobody would
need a low-flow toilet, live in a cramped home, or need land that is
below sea level.
Our leaders do not
understand overpopulation
Since we never experienced
any other environment, we assume that our cities are providing us with
an acceptable environment, but we did not evolve
for this type of
environment. Our modern cities are disgusting, inappropriate, and
miserable.
We evolved to live with clean
air and water, and to
be surrounded by trees, flowers, and creeks. We evolved to listen to
human voices and chirping birds, not automobiles, lawnmowers, or
barking dogs. We also evolved
to live among people we know, enjoy, and trust, not people who speak
different languages, regard us as goyim, or who want
to empty a revolver into our white heads. We evolved to live among
people who are healthy
and who enjoy life, not miserable, angry, psychotic, anti-social, and
retarded people.
We would consider a zoo to be cruel and barbaric if they provided
animals with an environment that was as filthy,
noisy, polluted, overcrowded, and devoid of vegetation as some of our
cities. We would also be disgusted if a zoo allowed the animals to
become
mentally and
physically retarded.
We are tormenting ourselves with our miserable cities and culture, so
we
should experiment with better living conditions, but that requires a
different group of people in leadership positions. We need leaders who
realize that humans are apes, and who have the desire and courage to
experiment with cities and culture. They also need the emotional
ability to impose restrictions on reproduction. Most important of all,
they need to be concerned about
society and want to become our team
member, rather than be a pampered King or Queen.
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